From the Antique Automobile Club of America, this scan of a 1959 brochure for the Lincoln Town Car featuring illustrations by Steinberg.
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Roth
Philip Roth, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was first published in The New Yorker the issue of March 14, 1959, with his story, “Defender of the Faith” causing an immediate stir (see the upcoming PBS American Masters profile “Philip Roth: Unmasked” for, among so many other things, Mr. Roth’s recollection of buying, opening up, reading and rereading his story
Read moreSteinberg reviewed by Maslin, Mankoff, and Dumas; from the Ink Spill archive “On a Bench with Steinberg”
Janet Maslin (no relation) reviews Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg: A Biography in today’s New York Times: “No Reading Between the Lines” In his weekly blog post, The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff looks at and shows us some of Steinberg’s work: “Saul Steinberg, Gag Man” A New Yorker cartoonist, Jerry Dumas, writing for the Greenwich Time, December
Read moreSay It Ain’t So: Bazooka Joe Semi-Retired; Steinberg in a bind; Time travel: cartoons from 1968
From The New York Times, November 29, 2012, “Change Comes to Playground Funny Papers” — this news of the near demise of Bazooka Joe (according to the article, he’ll appear occasionally, but not in the format that lasted nearly six decades). And: Here’s an interesting Bazooka Joe link. From the blog The Museum of Peripheral Art, December
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